Art, media, opinion and ideas
I'm in Kilkenny today, at Podcamp Ireland. It is a very diverse group of people- more demographically spread than any other gathering I've been to. I was talking about using the PaperRound methodology to teach media literacy, and broader critical thinking, to, mostly, Transition Year Students.
Back in November 2006, when we undertook our first Paper Round analysis, one of the very first stories I read was a front-pager, in a “quality" daily, which purported to alert the nation to the problem of employee fraud but was based entirely on quotes from a man who solved this self-same problem for a living.
7:23 PM Simon McGarr - This is much more likely to have a happy ending than Friday's pitiful attempt on the Late Late Show. Also, I've just bought the domain liveblog. ie so I hope that all these streams of mock-conscioussness will soon have a good home.
6:50 PM A first for tuppenceworth as we have a cross-blog extravaganza with Alexia Golez of golez. net . Topic: The desultory live blogging of three quarters of tonights X Factor.
9:19 PM John Waters only two generations from the Famine. His father born in 1904. 9:20 PM Meanwhile, the Guinness family seem not to have struggled too much.
The government has announced that it intends to save some money by merging and closing various state agencies. So far the common thread linking all the named agencies for the chop is that in some way they have opposed or embarrassed the executive during their existence. However, I'd like to use this as an opportunity to address a favourite unreported topic.
Anyone interested in the ongoing media revolution would do well, as I've suggested before, to keep a close eye on the US Presidential election campaign. The US press are currently in a state of high agitation over who Barack Obama's running mate is likely to be.
In a groundbreaking new experiment in collaborative blogging, there follows a post on the subject of sex in cinema, in the form of a late night Jaiku thread*. A:I love that episode of Seinfeld when Jerry can't do the threesome. "I'm not an orgy guy??? B:I was once asked would I be interested in attending a rubber ball.
Ireland has a perennial problem convincing young people that doing science, maths, engineering and physics is a good career choice. I won't argue with the numbers. John Collins in The Irish Times asserted last Friday;DESPITE RECENT increases in the unemployment rate, an estimated 7,000 vacancies remain unfilled in the technology sector while average salaries are continuing to increase.
I'll be on the Tubridy Show again tomorrow morning, sometime not long after the 9 O'Clock News, talking internet libel and such, and touching on some recent novel uses of the web by parties in divorce proceedings.
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